Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2002, 2:04 PM EDT for Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 2002, 2:04 PM EDT (18:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2002, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Niagara County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 52 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 551 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 927 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KBUF 271804 SVRBUF NYC063-271900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 202 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NIAGARA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 300 PM EDT * AT 153 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR YOUNGSTOWN MOVING EAST AT EAST AT 30 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL REACH NEWFANE BY 230 PM. OTHER STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NIAGARA PENINSULA WILL BE MOVING EAST ACROSS NIAGARA COUNTY THROUGH 3 PM. HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN BUFFALO. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK. LAT...LON 4336 7946 4318 7943 4319 7850 4346 7853
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 12:10 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 80 min | |
| Jun 27, 12:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 56 min |
| Jun 27, 12:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Wyoming | 66 min |
| Jun 27, 12:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Niagara | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 1:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 73 min |
| Jun 27, 1:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 56 min |
| Jun 27, 1:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 105 min | |
| Jun 27, 1:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 105 min | |
| Jun 27, 1:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Orleans | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 1:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga, Oswego | 53 min |
| Jun 27, 1:40 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 2 hr | |
| Jun 27, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe | 59 min |
| Jun 27, 2:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 51 min |
| Jun 27, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 30 min |
| Jun 27, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Lewis, Oswego | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 2:38 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 112 min | |
| Jun 27, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 34 min |
| Jun 27, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Lewis, Oswego | 60 min |
| Jun 27, 5:27 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 93 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.